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Message: [QUOTE="Hurleyman216, post: 4990213, member: 3517"] I'm not sure how something like this would pass if ALL division 1 universities have a vote or a say in the matter. Seems like the beginning of the end of the NCAA to me. If they push something down that benefits the top 25 programs while killing the other 300, then it's the end of the NCAA. It's essentially the same as the Big/SEC just splitting off and making their own organization. The only thing we have going for us is we're a state school and this line item loss for athletics would likely just get soaked up by the state of CT if we decide we still want to be involved in major college/"pro" sports. I also think NIL is at least a semi-fair way to compensate players. For most sports outside of basketball and football the athletes have an NIL value of $0. No one knows or cares who they are and they get paid via a free tuition. This whole concept of having to compensate some 3rd string field hockey player from 2016 for NIL that they didn’t get is nonsense. If these other non-revenue sports athletes want to be “fairly compensated” then they’ll have to start paying most of their tuition themselves, because that’s their real value. [/QUOTE]